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i would ask him to make the content for us. i think what is happening right now is the public discourse is so disjointed by these 30-second sound . -- sound bites. right now adult learning happens on the 24-hour news. so no one really understands the issues and it becomes emotionally charged and this is this is a chance for obama to really explain why he makes the decisions he does and maybe the opposition, to diagram it out and have a quiz afterwards to make sure. fill in that gap in learning the frankly people -- the one of the most popular videos are about the health care plan. these are caps in people's learning. >> host: it's a pleasure reading this book and it was nice meeting you. thanks for joining us. >> guest: oh, it was a pleasure. .. >> this is app hour and 15 minutes. >> i've just been told by c-span, i'm addressing the most serious audience i've ever addressed all of these years. [laughter] so thank you for coming. this is not an ordinary book. we live in an age of mung raking, exposes, documentaries, books on eve
i would ask him to make the content for us. i think what is happening right now is the public discourse is so disjointed by these 30-second sound . -- sound bites. right now adult learning happens on the 24-hour news. so no one really understands the issues and it becomes emotionally charged and this is this is a chance for obama to really explain why he makes the decisions he does and maybe the opposition, to diagram it out and have a quiz afterwards to make sure. fill in that gap in learning...
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using those same principles, you know, showing up on time. just doing what you will say you will do for people. it's amazing. it talks about -- i've been completely outside of politics my entire life. the only two other political offices that i've run for, governor of new mexico and re-election as governor of mexico and i may have made a name for myself. i did make a name for myself. arguably vetoing more legislation than the other 49 governors in the country combined. i think it was 750 bills. i took line-item veto. >> go to a new art form. thousands of line item vetoes. i said no to thousands of dollars in government spending and i said no to legislation that i think would have just added time and money for us to have to comply with these laws that would make it you any safer and wasn't going to improve our lives in any way and it was going to add money that we would have us to spend on it in time to be able to comply with a. >> you also funded your own campaign essentially. >> my first campaign i funded out of a 550,000-dollar primary. 510
using those same principles, you know, showing up on time. just doing what you will say you will do for people. it's amazing. it talks about -- i've been completely outside of politics my entire life. the only two other political offices that i've run for, governor of new mexico and re-election as governor of mexico and i may have made a name for myself. i did make a name for myself. arguably vetoing more legislation than the other 49 governors in the country combined. i think it was 750 bills....
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heart bypass surgery, angioplasty, back surgery, prostatectomy, antibiotic use, all over used. in september of this year the joint commission which accredits the nation's hospitals or many of them, will be hosting its first meeting on over treatment, and there will be looking at a number of these topics and trying to come to consensus on what it can do as an a creditor of hospitals to encourage hospitals to reduce unnecessary treatment. i think we have a moment in time now with health care reform that if we had unnecessary procedures , stop doing them on people who don't need them. use the talent and skill and resources on people who really do need them. if we can make that switch now, everybody will be kept intact. maintenance of board certification, if you will be seeking board certification in the future. i see your heads,. 2015, appropriate use will be part of minutes of certification . knowing when it's appropriate to do imaging for low back pain screening for osteoporosis. appropriate if you do oncology so that third round of chemotherapy and when is there no evidence tha
heart bypass surgery, angioplasty, back surgery, prostatectomy, antibiotic use, all over used. in september of this year the joint commission which accredits the nation's hospitals or many of them, will be hosting its first meeting on over treatment, and there will be looking at a number of these topics and trying to come to consensus on what it can do as an a creditor of hospitals to encourage hospitals to reduce unnecessary treatment. i think we have a moment in time now with health care...
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a lot of our regular customers, like i said, they love us, they support us, but then they're like i got this note, or is so easy to get a book. staffer lost customers that way. a lot of people will buy e-books from us through our website, which we've enabled. but not everybody does and we've lost customers that way. we don't loose customers so much as they don't buy as much as they used to. we see a lot of people whose purchases aren't as high as they used to. it's a con to question the power we going to survive in this new environment? publishing is in a precarious position and a lot of bookstores and how are we going to survive that? is something we think about all the time. there's no resting on your laurels, even if you've been here almost 40 years. we are constantly trying to change and adapt and stay on top of things like adding e-books to our website and having a website that you can order any kind of book on, something we work all the time, on facebook, we need to bring in new products all the time. we have more things that are nonbook items in this or that people enjoy for gift
a lot of our regular customers, like i said, they love us, they support us, but then they're like i got this note, or is so easy to get a book. staffer lost customers that way. a lot of people will buy e-books from us through our website, which we've enabled. but not everybody does and we've lost customers that way. we don't loose customers so much as they don't buy as much as they used to. we see a lot of people whose purchases aren't as high as they used to. it's a con to question the power...
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how you used it to deport people. we saw what happened in the 1920s when folks came in, of course, and helped keep your economy alive when it was booming, and then when the economy busted in 1929, mr. hoover deported them all. we saw what happened in the war, all immigrants came in, kept fields and factories and mines alive, and then in 1954, mr. eisenhower, another great military leader, allowedded one of the same people from that expedition against poncho to begin to round up immigrants. in 1954, the same year a young man, your age, a young man whose family fled poe land because of the holocaust, went to canada, came into new york as someone seeking freedom and exile, someone who understood the beauty of the american dream. in 1959, reportedly, that's when tom horn got his citizenship. our attorney general, the same here hundreds of thousands of mexicans and mexican-americans and their children were deported in operations. it's not about immigration, jeff, she told me. do you understand that? it's not about immigrat
how you used it to deport people. we saw what happened in the 1920s when folks came in, of course, and helped keep your economy alive when it was booming, and then when the economy busted in 1929, mr. hoover deported them all. we saw what happened in the war, all immigrants came in, kept fields and factories and mines alive, and then in 1954, mr. eisenhower, another great military leader, allowedded one of the same people from that expedition against poncho to begin to round up immigrants. in...
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going to let him tell us. his particular story of how that came to be. >> well, she told me that the name was actually given to her by her to african american playmates, stuff and doodlebug. and, of course, ladybird is another word for lady bug. apparently it was decided later at some point that it needed the name -- the name needed to be attributed to her adult nurse because to do otherwise might give the indication of social interaction between the races, but -- and i have never read that anywhere else, but that is what she told me anyway. taken for what it's worth. >> isn't that fascinating? it's like the precursor to the civil rights act. >> this conversation is taking a nasty turn since i found out i got my tac -- facts wrong. [laughter] >> you know, you got so many other facts right in your book, i don't think you need to worry. i would like you each to talk a little bit, starting with you, marc, about the different facets and aspects of the personalities to which you were privy, in particular in your ca
going to let him tell us. his particular story of how that came to be. >> well, she told me that the name was actually given to her by her to african american playmates, stuff and doodlebug. and, of course, ladybird is another word for lady bug. apparently it was decided later at some point that it needed the name -- the name needed to be attributed to her adult nurse because to do otherwise might give the indication of social interaction between the races, but -- and i have never read...
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this money was intended to be used, $90 million intended to be used to in the cholera epidemic in the congo and yet it was waylaid by a bird of prey, a vulture, a vulture fund, a guide -- managed by a guy named paul singer. is other middle name is elliott. paul elliott singer who has accompanied by a good name of elliott management so i went up the congo river for abc television to find out what happened and i found elliott management had their claws around the cholera of money for the congo. we reported it on bbc television and the very next day the parliament voted unanimously to outlaw the tactics of the vulture, and one of the congo got some of its money. germany outlawed paul the vulture singer and his activity. south america, everywhere he tries to perch, his activities are outlawed as manipulative and at times fraudulent and a threat to the world financial system let alone collar at the tombs. but then i saw something interesting. i was looking through the end romney blind trust. now, you can see these figures on here and you can see some of these places where she has put her m
this money was intended to be used, $90 million intended to be used to in the cholera epidemic in the congo and yet it was waylaid by a bird of prey, a vulture, a vulture fund, a guide -- managed by a guy named paul singer. is other middle name is elliott. paul elliott singer who has accompanied by a good name of elliott management so i went up the congo river for abc television to find out what happened and i found elliott management had their claws around the cholera of money for the congo....
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obama almost said, reminds us that not every change is an improvement. a movement that began by promising to every american a new freedom and a new deal, beyond necessaritiveness runs from paying its own bills, a movement that promised complete spiritual fulfillment in a great society incoming the right to choose one's own values and lifestyle now verges on confessing that no lifestyle can be said to be better than any other. the movement that put such faith in its leaders' ability to understand, predict, and control the future now faces a very uncertain and perilous future with or without barack obama. thank you very much. [applause] >> we have time for questions from the audience, about the book, or for kesler. >> but do we have time for answers? [laughter] >> depends how long the answers are. yes, sir? >> i think there's a microphone here as well so we can hear you. >> okay. owing. mr. kesler, i had a question. >> uh-huh? >> if president obama gets a second term, do you think this could be a permanent change in american society towards welfare state?
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don has lots of answers but when you do ask your question, you are also giving us permission to use your image and your words in the various broadcast media that will be looking towards once this talk is completed. don has a long history as you know as most of the people in the room know as a historian he associate historian for the u.s. senate and for many years he's been writing books about politics, about history, the press in particular, and i jumped into my own collection at home and during the signing session that would have for today's bouck which of course is editing fdr, the new deal campaign of 1930 to with the press gallery which reflect the subtitle congress in the washington correspondents and it's amazing that is also the is an area where don has developed his knowledge and his way of thinking about congress and the strict application of oral history and to put it in the perspective which through his books survived. one of the purposes of the talks actually is to demonstrate how resources of libraries and in particular the library of congress are used by scholars to point o
don has lots of answers but when you do ask your question, you are also giving us permission to use your image and your words in the various broadcast media that will be looking towards once this talk is completed. don has a long history as you know as most of the people in the room know as a historian he associate historian for the u.s. senate and for many years he's been writing books about politics, about history, the press in particular, and i jumped into my own collection at home and...
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come visit us in south beach, kid. we'll show you something. my stimulus is here tonight -- wait, where -- there she is, and christina did prevent me from collapsing into a depression. anybody who has ever written a book can empathize with. she most definitely rouses to activity. and it's like, change that diaper. and, yeah, obama's stimulus did, too. the $800 billion american recovery and reinvestment racked, signed less than a among after he took office. may become a national joke but really did prevent america from a great depression and it launched over 100,000 projects to upgrade roads, bridges, subways, sewer plants, military bases, fish hatcheries, i can go on all day and it's transforming america's approach to energy, education, health care, transportation, and more. it's one of the most important and least understand pieces of legislation in modern history. the short-term recovery part as well as the long-term reinvest part. always the pure is disstillation of what obama meant by change. a major down payment on owl of his biggest campa
come visit us in south beach, kid. we'll show you something. my stimulus is here tonight -- wait, where -- there she is, and christina did prevent me from collapsing into a depression. anybody who has ever written a book can empathize with. she most definitely rouses to activity. and it's like, change that diaper. and, yeah, obama's stimulus did, too. the $800 billion american recovery and reinvestment racked, signed less than a among after he took office. may become a national joke but really...
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long enough for us to maneuver. think about the law but that takes. while ahmad that for a minute, somebody's going to ask this question from going to quit and take it away from you. dr. watkins and had to go from being a sniper to being a doctor? how do you go from being a sniper to being a chiropractor? to have to ask the question means you don't know the heart of special operative part of a man like this. people don't become sealed the people go by, task forces 61 putts because what the wind up killing machines. they do that out of love. they do that out of love for their fellow men. they do it because i want to be in the position to save your life, if the time to ever really bad and somebody needs to come get you. i don't want to do because i want to go kill bad guys. i want to do because i want to be the one making a difference, helping out, but my life the line for you. so by the same token that i was a sniper, willing to die for you, i could be a good doctor willing to help you because it's all love. but the
long enough for us to maneuver. think about the law but that takes. while ahmad that for a minute, somebody's going to ask this question from going to quit and take it away from you. dr. watkins and had to go from being a sniper to being a doctor? how do you go from being a sniper to being a chiropractor? to have to ask the question means you don't know the heart of special operative part of a man like this. people don't become sealed the people go by, task forces 61 putts because what the wind...
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send us an e-mail or tweet us. montpieler was named the capital for its location weapon visitedded the city to explore the history and literary culture. montpellier. >> we are at the historic vermont college of fine artses in montpellier vermont. i'm the founding president of the college. i've always been a story-teller and always loved to read, and i was reading -- i thought maybe shy do this and i went back to school and took a creative writing class and decided i had a knack for it and never turned back. there's nothing more satisfying than working on a novel, particularly when you have a job like running a college. it's almost like -- although my literary life is an important part of what i do in some ways i'm still a tinkerer at night in the garage. i'm no different than someone building model airplanes. eye just crafting a 280 page novel that people hopefully read and enjoy. >>> the building behind is was erected in 1868 and this was a women's undergraduate college for years. in 2006, the campus was in danger
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what used to be homered in the classroom and what used to be lectures are now at home. it makes a classroom interactive i focus on a locked in the book, let's go further because even the flip assumes all the students will cover the same material on the same page together and what i talk a lot about is you know we have all been indoctrinated into the system and when i'm talking about the system i'm not talking about weapons should be the student-teacher ratio or charter or public or private. i'm talking about grouping kids by age base forward and covering certain subjects and the grades are based on berryville understanding. we just assume that is what the school is but i go to great lengths to show no this know ths a relatively new phenomenon. it's not 200 years old but we inherited from a country that no longer exists, the prussians and in fairness to the prescience and to us i guess, during the industrial revolution was the first time people seriously thought about how can we educate everybody? before that it was you are the son of the lord and the king and you get a
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people don't realize this, but did not used to be a bookstore on every corner, and did not use to the amazon when there was no intent. the public library was an absolute lifeline. we had the bookmobile, and i remember the bookmobile driving around our neighborhood. once or twice a week and good books. those experiences not only made me a reader. i believe they ultimately a writer. both public library is not a luxury in american life. it is a necessity. a necessity certainly in the new digital divide age when people are getting their computer access at a public library terminal as opposed to having a personal computer, and there are a great many people who do not have that access yet and depend on the public library. that is my sermon about the importance of the library and a functioning democracy. >> host: next call comes from allen in sanford, florida. hi. >> caller: can you hear me? >> host: we are listening. >> caller: very nice to talk to you. let me just say, i read a couple of your books, and i think it is great. i am totally blind. i noticed that you and your publisher have wor
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trust us, we'll do. for the members of the ex-con, the issue is not so much trust but verify, but verify first. there really wasn't a lot of trust the kennedy was on tape talking about how the soviet ambassador to united states was never in as a source because the camp leatherneck not necessary he was lying but there were concerned that maybe he hadn't been told about this. there were concerns that listening to any of the soviet diplomats. revealed thing about deadlifting -- that's what they were doing. so kennedy and ex-con have this promise but they didn't have to falter and work out how to verify. he talks about how there might be a massive trick and how might be a hoax which history has no backlog of. what they have to do is look at how the into and within called its americanizing what's happening on the ground. their preferences to send american weapons inspections into cuba. fidel castro said it's not going to allow that. next best thing is an american surveillance planes over. but that in itself i
trust us, we'll do. for the members of the ex-con, the issue is not so much trust but verify, but verify first. there really wasn't a lot of trust the kennedy was on tape talking about how the soviet ambassador to united states was never in as a source because the camp leatherneck not necessary he was lying but there were concerned that maybe he hadn't been told about this. there were concerns that listening to any of the soviet diplomats. revealed thing about deadlifting -- that's what they...